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CommentComment: Venice jury springs surprises as festival grapples with global events
‘Father Mother Sister Brother’ was widely liked, but not a picture that figured prominently in speculative Golden Lion conversation.
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CommentComment: Cannes is on a stellar run – does it reflect the true strength of the independent film industry?
The festival runs from May 13-24.
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CommentComment: industry desperate for Cannes to keep its hot streak going
It’s more than eyes on the Cannes Competition - it’s wallets too.
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CommentComment: studios should strive to make this generation’s ‘The Matrix’
Cinemagoing needs to be protected, and as the independent space is flourishing, bigger studios should take notice.
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CommentNine Bafta takeaways: no politics and little diversity, but fun, friendly and very British
Screen’s executive editor, reviews and new talent Fionnuala Halligan looks back at last night’s Bafta Film Awards.
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CommentComment: The Academy’s international feature category is struggling to keep up with the times
“The international feature film category is fast becoming a juvenile delinquent lobbing grenades of credibility back at the mothership”
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Comment“I think a lot about death”: Carlos Marques-Marcet on end-of-life musical ‘There Will Be Dust’
The TIFF Platform Award winner opens Valladolid before releasing in Spain in November
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CommentComment: Venice 2024 - The Films Are All Right
Panic over a paucity of films due to the Hollywood strikes was papered-over by artistic director Alberto Barbera’s suavely-executed line-up
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Comment‘Kneecap’ breaks £1m at UK-Ireland box office as ‘Alien: Romulus’ holds lead with £2m
‘It Ends With Us’, ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ hold well.
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CommentComment: five fall festival titles that will become awards contenders - and why
Identifying the awards-season contenders from the bewildering array of films at this time of year means learning the rules of the game.
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CommentComment: Sex and politics reign at newsworthy Cannes 2024
Critical consensus – if you can ever find it – indicates it was a good year, even if reviews were rarely rapturous.
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CommentComment: Bafta’s winning films are an optimistic vision of a global UK industry
Box-office success for ’The Zone Of Interest’, ’Anatomy Of A Fall’ and ’All Of Us Strangers’ suggests the arthouse audience is back too.
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CommentComment: It is time for Bafta to rethink its jury interventions
Bafta should trust its reinvigorated membership and give them more of a vote.
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CommentVenice’s Giornate degli Autori unveils 2023 line-up
The films include Isabelle Huppert starrer ’Sidonie in Japan’ and a new short film by Celine Sciamma.
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CommentItaly’s Cinecittà Studios scales back expansion plans (exclusive)
Legendary Rome production facility had planned to acquire 76-acre plot of land next to studio.
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CommentComment: Venice line-up - ‘AI couldn’t make this up’
There’s a lot of baggage for one single festival to carry this year.
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CommentGuest comment: “The film production sector must adopt kinder working conditions for all - especially those with disabilities”
Theo Rintoul is a UK videographer who suffers from autoimmune disease.
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CommentComment: Cannes' 2023 selection was inspired but festival struggled with logistics
You can be too successful, as Cannes discovered in its 76th edition.
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CommentComment: Old and new filmmakers to rub shoulders at appealing Cannes 2023
Exciting voices take their place in Competition alongside familiar names.
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CommentComment: Don’t blame Bafta. The entire industry needs to reconsider what is an “awards film”
”Sitting around pointing fingers at Bafta is a comfortable factory setting and it fundamentally changes nothing.”